Reviewer:
David Whitten
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April 29, 2021 Subject:
MUMPS Historic Document from 1970's
As a member of the M Development Committee, I am glad this issue is now at archive.org The article "Touch of MUMPS" by Joan Zimmerman starting on page
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88, is a classic created after the MUMPS language standard was published in 1977. While the standard has been updated multiple times since then, this represents a key step because the 1977 X11 MUMPS Standard was the one which coalesced all competing variants into a single subset that they all could agree upon. I also think the listing of the BASIC implementation of Adventure starting on page 108 is also notable, as a key contributor to the interactive Fiction mode of story telling. And of course, all the advertisements are a walk down memory lane for me, and others of my generation.